Thursday, December 13, 2007

I am giddy this morning (even after a horrible ANTM finale. Chantal in the final 2?!? Tyra has really lost it). The Golden Globe nominees have been announced (I've really no idea why I get so excited about these things, but I love the Golden Globes. I think I've come to prefer them over the Academy Awards for several reasons:1. They let the audience drink during the ceremony leading to hilarious acceptance speeches and someone inevitably in the bathroom when their name is called.2. It's TV and movie stars together in the same room...which is cool for some reason I can't explain and3. There is an element of surprise about the winners because they are selected by strange foreign people.It's great. Unlike The Grammys, it's an award show worth watching).

There are no real surprises among the film nominees (Atonement leads with 7 nominations) other then maybe Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters (which basically looks like Remember the Debate Team Titans), but the Hollywood Foreign Press tends to nominate one random film for Best Picture every year. I am very excited about the television nominees and all the love for Pushing Daisies and Damages (even though I am pretty sure I'm the only person who watched that show) and BBC standouts like Jekyll and 5 Days. I am kinda surprised The Sopranos is basically no where to be found (other then Edie Falco for Best Actress). What's the deal with that? Is the HFP pissed at David Chase over the ending? I need answers!!!

Anyway, because I've nothing better to do, here are my picks for who I think should win in the major TV categories (we'll discuss who I think will win closer to the actual award show...and I'm not picking the film nominees because I haven't seen enough of the nominated films/performances yet). Here goes:

By the way, I love Grey's Anatomy and I don't care who knows it, but I don't understand all the love for Katherine Heigl. I like her, but the best actors on that show are undisputedly Sandra Oh and Chandra Wilson.

I think it's racism...everyone likes the pretty, blond white girl more then the feisty Asian and Black ladies (yeah, I said it).

Nice picks on the movies. It's not that I don't have the balls, I just didn't think I could speak with any real authority on most of the nominees (because I have so much knowledge about these things usually. God. I'm a pretentious b*tch).

I hate to agree with you about Alec Baldwin. I've had a tough internal struggle as of late. He is a brilliant actor, but for the life of me I cannot get out of my head the leaked phone message to his 11 year-old daughter (which, no matter which way he tried to spin it, was absolutely revolting). It still turns my stomach to this day, just thinking about it.

Where does the line get drawn? Can I think he is a good actor without thinking he is a good person? I guess the answer is yes.